Notes on books #136 & 137

I released two new Lorecore volumes last night: The Complaining Wizard (#136) Acceptable Consequences (#137) The Complaining Wizard in some ways is a sort of standard epic fantasy vignette, though we never quite learn why the present party in the story is on the adventure that they are on (in medias res), nor where they end up. But we do learn that the old guy wizard in the party is a crotchety crabby complainer of the first order, who longs for nothing more than to go the hell back home. That’s basically the whole gag. The manuscript is basically a diatribe about all the things he is annoyed about on their trip. Because, let’s face it, there are many parts of any adventure which just suck, and typically they are completely glossed over in conventional genre literature. The cover image and text treatment that I got out of ChatGPT really crack me the hell up here: ChatGPT by then had already given me plenty of great images from their adventure (there are a handful from Muse in this…